NUCMC and the Documentary Heritage of the Civil War - 2014

This Web presentation is part of a five year/five part effort to highlight program cataloging of the last quarter century, along with related visual content, in observance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War.

Part 4 (2014: "The Soldier's Dream of Home")

The home front, women in the war, the role of charitable organizations, economic aspects of the war, and patriotic societies.

• John B. Rice collection, 1830-1911 (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio)
• Howe-Wolcott correspondence, 1861-1888 (Sheldon Museum Research Center, Middlebury, Vt.)
• Edmondson/Bray/Williams/Stidham collection, 1834-1987 (University of Mississippi, University, Miss.)
• Marie Ester Brandt diaries, 1849-1869 (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Ind.)
• Women's Relief Corps, McClelland Relief Corps No. 50 records, 1861-1931 (Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Okla.)
• Ladies' Soldier's Aid Society record, 1865-1866 (New London County Historical Society, New London, Conn.)
• Notebooks of letters from Charles H. Brewster to his mother Martha C. Brewster, 1861-1864 (Historic Northampton Museum & Education Center, Northampton, Mass.)
• Andrew and Mary E. Burwell correspondence, 1864-1865 (University of Southern Mississippi, McCain Library and Archives, Hattiesburg, Miss.)
• Catherine Hooper letters from Confederate prisoners, 1864-1865 (Arkansas History Commission, Little Rock, Ark.)
• Timothy O. Webster letter, May 1. 1864 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, Tex.)
• Ferdinand Van Derveer correspondence, 1861-1870 (Smith Library of Regional History, Oxford, Ohio)
• Samuel N. Kennerly Letter, July 1864 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, Tex.)
• Furman family papers, 1854-1938 (Pearce Civil War Collection, Navarro College, Corsicana, Tex.)
• Rebecca Usher papers, 1841-1899 (Maine Historical Society, Portland, Me.)
• Donohoe family collection, 1861-1865 (Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, Va.)

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